{"id":107843,"date":"2022-07-27T12:06:59","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T16:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=107843"},"modified":"2022-07-27T12:06:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T16:06:59","slug":"district-of-kitimat-awaits-funding-for-new-water-treatment-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/district-of-kitimat-awaits-funding-for-new-water-treatment-system\/","title":{"rendered":"District of Kitimat awaits funding for new water treatment system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The District of Kitimat is currently operating a pilot plant which will outline the updates that will be included in the anticipated water treatment system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After having to put out a number of water advisories starting around 2018, the district decided to assess their current treatment plant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Problems were found with water clarity and a pH balance that was lower than expected, causing the district to warn children, pregnant women, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems to boil their drinking water.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Working with Northern Health, the district determined that the system had aged and worked together on a plan to bring the facility back to compliance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Director of Engineering Services Alex Ramos-Espinoza explained that the pilot plant, which was started in April, will run until this fall to test different possible treatment options.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once decisions on equipment and chemicals are made, the upgraded system is estimated to cost $8.25 million.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The district had applied for funding from the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program back in January, and having not heard anything back, they applied for a second possible grant from the Canada Community Building Fund earlier this month, which would cover just $6 million.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If everything goes according to plan, the new system will be up and running by the end of 2023, putting an end to the recurring water advisories and improving the overall quality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the full radio story below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The District of Kitimat is currently operating a pilot plant which will outline the updates that will be included in the anticipated water treatment system. After having to put out a number of water advisories starting around 2018, the district decided to assess their current treatment plant. Problems were found with water clarity and a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":107849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,223],"tags":[12269,13637,17186,8449,17184,13835,17185],"radio":[13054],"origine":[280,13049,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107843"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108021,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107843\/revisions\/108021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107843"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=107843"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=107843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}